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This year’s spring concert was headlined by the famous rock band Third Eye Blind, pictured above. Other acts included Trapt, Trey Songz, and Blue Jupiter.PHOTO COURTESY OF CHARGER BULLETIN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER KIMBERLY HARMAN

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SCOPE Prevails With First Sold Out Show; Carnival Attracts Over 2,500 Attendees!

Women’s Lacrosse Captures NE-10 Win

WEST HAVEN — The University of New Haven women's lacrosse team defeated visiting Southern New Hampshire Universi-ty, 12-7, at Ralph F. Della-Camera Stadium on Sunday afternoon to capture its first

ever Northeast-10 Confer-ence (NE-10) Champion-ship. The Chargers improve to 16-3 overall this season, while the Penmen finish their season at 13-5.

Ashley Ferrandiz gave the Chargers 2-0 lead with a goal in the fifth minute on Sunday. The Penmen an-swered with two goals in the ninth minute, evening

the score at 2-2. Six min-utes later, Brianna Ken-worthy and Brigid Brady put the Chargers ahead 4-2. SNHU added one in 21st minute, but the Chargers finished strong with three unanswered goals to push their lead to 7-3 at the mid-way point.

Brady, Sarah Magnone and Kenworthy each scored

in the opening four minutes of the second half to put the Chargers up by seven, 10-3. Over the next 14 min-utes the Penmen cut New Haven's lead to four (11-7) by scoring four of the next five goals. Ashley Ferran-diz capped scoring in the 54th minute with her 57th of the season. The Char-gers then managed to stall

and run out the clock for the remaining six minutes.

Maureen Spellman made nine saves in goal for the Chargers, while allow-ing only seven goals. She saved five shots in the first half and four in the second half.

The Chargers' offense

The Student Committee on Programming Events, fondly known as SCOPE, has once again given the UNH community a won-derful Spring Weekend.

Things got started with a bang on Friday night with the concert.

Volunteers started ar-riving at Charger Gym-nasium as early as 7:00 in the morning to start setting up for the big night. A to-tal of four box trucks were unloaded that morning;

the contents of the trucks transforming the gym into a concert venue. With ev-erything set up and ready to go it was time to open the doors and let the crowd fill the gym. The show was sold out and it showed in the way the gym filled up.

The concert started with

a performance by Blue Ju-piter, an a cappella group based in New York City. They performed a variety of songs ranging from Tom Cochrane’s “Life is a High-way” to Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours.” The group has won many awards and did not disappoint last Friday. The

group also performed in be-tween acts to keep the audi-ence entertained throughout the night. If you loved them and want to hear more visit www.bluejupiter.com.

The next act was Trey Songz. The hip hop/R&B

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Spring weekend was a success. It was nice to at least have some sun. And whoa. An elephant. We had an elephant. Here. How awesome is that. The concert was pretty good, not the best, but pretty good. I think most people would agree that Third Eye Blind put on a great show. Thanks for all of your hard work SCOPE and volunteers!

As Europe (the band) would sing, “It’s the final countdown!” Seniors we have SIX-TEEN DAYS LEFT!!!! Semi-charmed kin-da life, eh? We’ll all be going our own way, but hopefully we’ll bring our memories and good times with us and thanks to awesome technology we’ll be able to keep in touch with those we’ve met in the past four years. Good luck to everyone who is graduating!

Can I just mention how Dining Servic-es hasn’t touched a single one of our meals on our cards?

If I could, I would include a single teardrop of mine with every issue this week, but unfortunately I don’t think I can do that. All of the rest of you suck-ers stuck here for a few more years: make the best of it!

And so it comes to an end—my reign of the baby I created and maintained for 7 semesters. I’ve seen things change and I’ve see things stay the same from what I’ve written. Heck, the paper was once even confiscated over something I wrote (dead rats and Open House, anyone?). I want to thank those loyal readers who have kept me going. Equally important, I want to thank those who have let me poke fun at them, as well as those who have responded to what I’ve written. This battery is now dead and it’s time to recharge! I hope I can find someone that can continue my legacy, though no one can do it as well as me. I hope.

Oh and specially for Food Services, I have to do it once more for [exple-

tive deleted]s and giggles: Sandella’s, please cut your pizzas better. No

one can eat them the way they’re cut and

lots of people have been complaining about it lately. Maybe there’s a pizza cutting seminar or some-thing. But really, a special thanks to Food Services who have taken a lot of the brunt from me and have been the quickest to respond to my complaints and even my praises.

Positives NegativesA weekly recap of the positives & negatives at UNH

By Dan Osipovitch

Want To Join the Charger Bulletin Staff next

year?E-mail chargerbulletin@newhaven.edu to find out

how!

Wednesday, May 6 ¡Sobremesa!

Jazzman’s in Bartels, 1pm – 3pm

Pool League New Hall Game Room, 9pm-11pm

UNH’s Got Talent Dodd’s Theatre, 9pm – 12 am

Thursday, May 7 Twisted Thursday

Echlin Dining Hall, 9:30pm – 11:00pm

Friday, May 8

Internship Workshop Kaplan 210 12:15pm – 1:30pm

Double Dare Quad 1pm – 3pm

Saturday, May 9

Hillbilly Olympics Quad, 4pm – 5:30 pm

Tuesday, May 12

Farewell to Dennis Nostrand and Juli

Roebuck Alumni Lounge, 3pm-5pm

Internship Workshop Kaplan 210 12:15pm – 1:30pm

From all of us at the Charger Bulletin, have a

great summer!

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NEWs BriEfsBy Associated Press Writers

Zack’s Wacky StacKYour place to find the oddest stories in mainstream news.

By Zack Rosen

Have a wacky story?Send it to us at ChargerBulletin@newhaven.edu

Couple arrested for sex on lawn at Wind-sor Castle

LONDON – Queen Elizabeth II was at home at Windsor Castle, the sentries who guard her were on duty, and the large park surrounding the magnificent building was full of tourists on a Sunday afternoon. So it didn’t take long for people to realize that something was out of order when an inebriated couple ar-rived from a nearby restaurant and began having sex on a grass bank outside the cas-tle, according to wit-nesses.

“One window from the guardroom opened up and when a soldier saw what was going on he told his mates — and lots of windows opened up,” witness Mark Robinson told The Sun newspaper.

“The couple did not care who was looking

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hil-lary Rodham Clinton informed representa-tives of the world’s largest greenhouse-gas-emitting econo-mies that the Unites States was ready to move forward to com-bat global warming.

Clinton spoke Mon-day, April 27 at an in-ternational conference (the Major Economies Forum on Energy and

A Search for Allies in the Global Warming Fight

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Climate) in which she urged all the coun-tries present to work together towards an international agree-ment to halt pollution that is responsible for current climate chang-es. By December, the committee hopes to replace the current emissions procedure, the Kyoto Protocol passed in 1997, with a new international agreement.

"The United States is fully engaged and ready to lead and de-termined to make up

for lost time, both at home and abroad," Clinton said during the symposium.

Clinton also ac-knowledged that each economy was respon-sible for climate-changing emissions in a different way, but that all economies should work together to achieve the com-mon goal.

China is currently the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gasses. However, sev-eral Chinese leaders claim that a large por-

tion of their emissions is the result of manu-facturing goods for export.

Proposed legisla-tion calls for a reduc-tion of greenhouse gases by 20 percent in just 11 years. Accord-ing to Clinton, it is through new, coopera-tive agreements that people everywhere will be able to reach their “legitimate as-piration for a higher standard of living.”

The question in ev-erybody’s mind now is: what next?

and just kept going as if they were in their own bedroom.”

Japanese tourists filmed the couple, who only stopped when police officers arrived on the scene, witnesses said.

Thames Valley Po-lice said the man and woman were arrested and given a written warning about outrag-ing public decency.

The queen was in the castle at the time, but her office declined Friday to comment about what had hap-pened.

Cowboy ticketed for ‘riding under the in-fluence’

ARVADA, Colo. – A man in a cowboy hat who rode a horse through a Denver sub-urb has been cited for riding an animal un-der the influence. Po-lice said Brian Drone was given a $25 traf-fic violation ticket in

a strip mall parking lot Friday. Drone told KUSA-TV that he was out for a “joyride” in Arvada with his horse, Cricket.

Sgt. Jeff Monzingo says the citation was the first he’d seen in 15 years of working in law enforcement.

Police say deciding what to do with the horse was a “tricky call” because “you can tow a car” in typical drunk driving cases.

A stable owner eventually offered Drone and his horse a ride home.

A phone num-ber listed for a Brian Drone in Arvada was disconnected.

Outhouses cushion small plane crash in Wash state

P U Y A L L U P , Wash. – A small air-plane dropping from the sky after its engine failed wound up on a cushioning bunch of

portable toilets — and the pilot was able to walk away apparently unhurt.

Gary Mayor of the Federal Aviation Ad-ministration says the Cessna 182 crashed Friday afternoon in Washington state af-ter taking off from Thun Field, an air-field owned by Pierce County southeast of Tacoma.

Sheriff’s spokes-man Ed Troyer says the plane was about 150 feet in the air when the engine quit.

Troyer told The News Tribune that the pilot tried to turn around to land but didn’t quite make it.

The plane hit a fence, flipped over and landed upside down on top of the portable toilets standing in a storage yard.

Authorities didn’t immediately give the pilot’s identity in time for publication.

Clinton returns to Oklahoma bombing site for tour

OKLAHOMA CITY — Bill Clinton recalled the profound impact of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing on the nation and his presidency dur-ing a private tour of a memorial and museum honoring the 168 people killed.

The former president announced Saturday he is joining an honorary national board of trustees that will promote the privately operated Okla-homa City National Memorial and Museum. Clinton was president when the powerful truck bomb tore through the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995.

On his fifth visit to the site, the former presi-dent declared that the resilience of Oklaho-mans in the bombing aftermath shows people can draw strength from one another and prevail while confronting "the worst in humanity."

"My life has been indelibly marked by the people I met here," Clinton said Saturday in addressing about 200 museum supporters, bombing survivors and former rescue workers. "I came here, more than anything else, to say 'Thank You.'"

He added: "The memories I have here ... have changed my life, and I think, fundamen-tally changed the lives of the nation."

Cause not yet known in 28-injury tour bus wreck

PERRIS, Calif. — Investigators in Southern California are still trying to learn why a tour bus crashed into a freeway divider, injuring all 28 people on board.

Riverside County Fire Department Capt. Rick Griggs said eight people injured in Satur-day's accident on Interstate 215 were listed in critical condition.

California Highway Patrol Officer Danny Hesser told the Riverside Press-Enterprise the bus from Inland Empire Stages Limited was returning a tour group to Colton — between Riverside and San Bernardino — after a trip to San Diego.

States consider 'Silver Alerts' for missing adults |

MONTVILLE, Conn. — Connecticut and several other states are considering adopting alert systems to help find missing adults with Alzheimer's disease, dementia and other cogni-tive problems.

The Silver Alerts are modeled on Amber Alerts, which are issued to help find miss-ing and abducted children. Fifteen states have Silver Alert programs, and Connecticut's state Senate endorsed a proposal last week.

It's now awaiting a state House vote.The Alzheimer's Association says about 5

million people in the U.S. have the disease, and that about six of every 10 will wander away from their caregivers at least once.

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On Friday Apr. 24, 2009 the Sisters of Delta Epsilon Beta and the Brothers of Sigma Chi success-fully raised fourteen hundred dollars dur-ing their annual Sleep-out for the Homeless. All proceeds went to Life Haven, in New Haven, CT.

Life Haven is a non-profit organiza-tion that shelters over 150 families annually. The purpose of this event is to help raise awareness of home-lessness in the area and to raise money to assist the community, by helping to provide

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homes for those who do not have them. This fundraiser was only possible with the help of these donators:

Nancy Cooper, Linda Smith, Gorin’s Clearance Outlet, Haddam Neck Fair Association, Les-ter Gorin, Patricia A Smith, Torrington Firefighters Local 1567, The Thomas Family, Walter Rup-par, Village Pizza, Connie Lustrinelli, Athens Pizza, Barry J Vine, Vine Products Manufacturing Co., Todd Lamothe, Andy Corielo, Mark Capell, Joseph Fioretti, Bar-bara O’Connell, Mau-reen and Ed Bascetta, Marc Smith, Famous Uncle Al’s, Chuck

Hajnal, Red Tomato Pizzeria, Giusep-pina Causo, Linda Silva and Paul Sokol, Mcans Group LLC, Matthews Tavern Inc., Walmart Foundation, Mary Burke, Amy Gillis, Phillis Event-off, Wendy Bortnicker Andy Gachi, Anne Conordy, Fred Law-rence, Dan Alintoffro, Sue Tylivfcok, Sue Libbrock, Dave Sulli-van, Andrew Roselli, David Jonney, Lourie Perrie, Mr. and Mrs. Dickseein, Eileen Tiefenthaler, Lindsey Walisce, Ed McCor-mack, Chris Farrel, Kathleen Caruso, and special thanks to Ray-mour and Flanagan Furniture for donating boxes.

WA S H I N G T O N , D.C. — On Wednes-day Apr. 22, 2009, the Supreme Court of the United States heard the oral arguments of Ricci v. DeStefano.

Ricci v. DeStafano is a case based out of the New Haven and involves a firefighter promotional exam. In 2003, members of the New Haven Fire Department sat for an oral and written test to be promoted to the ranks of Lieu-tenant and Captain within the city. Upon completion of the test, the city decided not to certify the list because there were not enough minorities in the top ranks of the list. The city feared that the test had some level of bias associated with it and

UNH Students Go To Supreme CourtBy LOUIS ESWOOD IIIFIRE SCIENCE CLUB

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by certifying the test the city would face a lawsuit.

Instead, 19 white

firefighters and one Hispanic, now known as the New Haven 20, banded together and filed a reverse dis-crimination suit with

the city. The firefight-ers argue that the test was based on job spe-cific duties and that

the company who made the test was willing to vouch for its validity. One of the prime questions they posed to the Supreme

Court was whether the city had the abil-ity to not certify a list of an otherwise valid

test based only on the racial outcome of the participants.

The case has grabbed a significant amount of national

attention when the Obama administration filed a brief siding with the city by asking

the court to send the case back to the lower court. During the ar-guments a representa-tive from the Obama Administration was

given the opportunity to present the govern-ment’s argument to the court.

In attendance at the arguments were two fire science students from the University of New Haven: Louis Eswood and Chris Rinck. They were ac-companied by their Fire Law professor, Marty O’Connor, and were able to secure three reserved seats in the courtroom, sur-passing a two-year waiting list. The group traveled to Washing-ton, D.C. on money secured from the gen-erosity of the Bartel’s Family and the Of-fice of the Dean of the Henry Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences.

The case is expect-ing a decision from the United States Su-preme Court some-time in June.

MSNBC.com and NYDailyNews.com have incorrectly re-ported that a UNH student has contract-ed H1N1 (swine flu). The university is in close contact with the student's mother who notes her son does not have H1N1. Since one of her other sons, who is in high school, does have the virus she has placed her UNH stu-dent on Tamiflu as a precaution. The uni-versity has asked that her son who attends UNH stay at home for one week before re-turning to campus.

Please check www.

Swine Flu Not Here, Despite Rumors

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newhaven.edu for up-dates regarding H1N1 and the University of New Haven.

Please remember: Should any UNH stu-dents show flu symp-toms they are asked to report to Health Services. Faculty and staff are asked to see their primary health-care providers. For more information, visit the Centers for Disease Control web-site at http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/.

Symptoms of H1N1 include fever, leth-argy, lack of appetite, coughing, and other less-common symp-toms include runny nose, sort throat, nau-sea, vomiting and di-arrhea.

Some precautions include: stay home if you are sick to avoid spreading the illness, cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze, throw the used tissue in the trash, wash hands frequently and thoroughly with soap and warm wa-ter or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth to deter the spread of germs, and avoid trav-el to Mexico.

For another source of breaking news, both campus and na-tional, be sure to visit the Charger Bulletin online at www.Char-gerBulletin.com.

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UsGA President’s Corner

Louis Eswood IIIUSGA President

USGA Meetings are at 1:45 every Monday in the Alumni Lounge. All are welcome!

By CHARLES DIGUG-LIELMOCONTRIBUTING WRITER

––––––––––––––––– So this is my last ever article as the USGA President. To be perfectly honest, I never really liked writing these articles and I can not count the number of times that Celina had to remind me that I had to write my article. So I want to say Thank you to Celina and the entire Charger Bulletin staff for putting up with me and my articles being so late. I would like to say thank you to the Yearbook staff and SCOPE for all of their hard work over the last year.

Greg, Lisa, and Dean Johnson, you have always been there when I needed

Thank You!

Voice concerns may look on the outside like the students don’t really like it here, but I saw it as the students caring enough to sub-mit those concerns and are looking to improve this university. I hope that everyone was sat-isfied with the job I did and I wish you all the best of luck. So to every single person at this institution, good bye and thank you!

something and were always supportive towards me and the USGA; Thank you. To my executive board, you have all been there to tell me my ideas were bad, bring up new ones, and were there to encourage me all along the way. For that, I thank you.

However, most im-portantly I would like to thank the student body. You were the ones who put me in this position and trust-ed me and my judg-ment. Nobody can do this job without the support of the stu-dents and over the last two years you have all made it easier for me. The flood of Charger-

Swingin’ Sixties Come in Form of Play

The swingin’ six-ties were back at UNH this week with the theater depart-ment’s rendition of A

Flea In Her Ear, a sex farce set in the 1960s in Paris between a sketchy hotel, The Hotel Pussy á Go-Go and Victor Deboshe’s living room. Flea was originally written in 1902 by George Fey-deau, the father of the modern farce, and was translated by Frank Galati for a theater in Chicago.

The show opens up in the living room of insurance agent Victor Deboshe (Jeremy Tor-tora). Madame Yvonne Deboshe (Sonnie Leb-bing) calls for long time friend Lucille Homenides de Histan-gua (Sally Nieborsky) when she has a “flea in her ear” that there is someone else in Monsieur’s life; when in reality it is just a sexual fear from a play. Together the two hatch a plan to try and catch him by send-ing a fake love letter to rendezvous at the Hotel Pussy á Go-Go. Things run awry when Monsieur believes

someone has mistak-en his identify and has his friend, business partner and madame Deboshe’s mutual love interest Maurice Blasé (Ben Moody) go in his place. Along with these characters

we meet Doctor Pa-nache (Nicholas The-odoseau), Deboshe’s insurance company’s doctor as he is forced to give some advice to the Deboshe’s butler Perrier (Ryan Flana-gan). We also learn about the Perrier’s wife Nanette (Holly Stadzcuk) fellow ser-vant to the Deboshes and her affair with the “innocent, chaste” Claude Deboshe (Da-vid Iannacone), the Deboshe’s nephew and secretary who has a sever speech impediment due to an upper pallet defect making his speech undecipherable. But then things really get messed up when Car-los Homenides de Histangua (Alyssa Biggs) finds the note that was written by his wife for madam Deboshe for monsieur Deboshe. He promises to put a bullet through anyone he catches with her and sparing her no mercy either.

Madam Deboshe,

being the first to arrive at the Hotel Pussy A Go-Go, meets some of the colorful characters there, including the “Colonel” Henri Mar-tinet (Joseph Francis-co) who owns the fine establishment where if

married men weren’t faithful they would be out of business, along with his love interest and assistant at the ho-tel Olympia (Amanda Pamulo). We also meet two most inter-esting characters of all Benedictine (Matthew Mendoza) and Maher Ravvi (Kenneth Bra-gen). Benedictine is a drinking, arthritic, shaking uncle of the colonel whose only job is to lay in bed and (when the panic button gets pressed) arrive on the revolving bed to save the day with his two go-go danc-ers (Rebekah Gordon and Sara McGuire). While Maher Ravvi is an exotic from the far East waiting for his rendezvous that seems to never come but cre-ates hijinx when the rest of the crew shows up. Things get really crazy when Maurice shows up instead of Victor! But wait here is where things really

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EditorialsThe Charger Bulletin | May 6, 2009Page 6

Zack RosenEditor-in-Chief

Elect

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Countdown to Graduation: I’d Rather Forget

Erin EnnisAssistant Editor

Elect

With Spring Week-end behind us, the end of the year is per-fectly in view. Finals start in a week, most professors are prepar-ing their last tests and projects, and the ma-jority of the student body is settling down for studying, working, and packing. For un-dergraduate students like me, this is a time to enjoy the last few weeks with friends before summer. It is a time to pack up to go home with a heavy heart but a smile be-

Of all the different clubs and organiza-tions at the University of New Haven, no one is as active as SCOPE. They do events during the week and at least two every weekend, Rock and Roll Week, Spring Concert and Spring Carnival, co-medians, hypnotists, movies every Friday and Sunday, work the sound system at a huge amount of campus events for other clubs and organizations, and so much more.

This past week-end was, of course, Spring Weekend. From an elephant, Third Eye Blind, free cotton candy, a mini roller coaster, and Last Comic Standing winner John Heffron, there was tons to do. I don’t have an edito-rial about politics this week, or something bad on campus. This editorial is simply a huge high five to ev-eryone at SCOPE for all of the hard work they do. And an extra

Praise Needs To Be Given...high five for SCOPE’s current lone Co-Chair, Amanda ZeRuth. She

has taken SCOPE as her sole responsibility for the past semester: overseeing the 11+ SCOPE committee heads, the huge num-ber of volunteers and general members, and planning hundreds of thousands of dollars of events this year.

For all of the mem-bers of SCOPE, don’t feel for a minute that you’re unappreciated. I think if people real-ize that Spring Week-end simply would not happen without you, they would see how important each of you

cause next year is just a few months away. But for seniors these last weeks are the time to remember, party, and say goodbye to the University com-munity that has been supportive for four long years.

As a junior, a large majority of the seniors here are my greatest friends. At the mo-ment, I cannot imag-ine walking down the halls of Kaplan and Buckman without see-ing certain faces. I will miss specific voices

that permeate from behind certain doors in the Student Activi-ties wing. It saddens me to think of Shef-field without its usual senior shenanigans.

Yet, all I have heard around campus for the last week or so is “twenty six days”. “Two weeks and I’m outta here.” “Freedom is right around the corner”. I am thrilled that the seniors are ready to leave; it must be a fantastic feeling to know that your life is about to start. How-

ever, some of us have intentions on missing the senior class when it leaves. Some students on this campus want to spend these last few weeks enjoying our time with the seniors and remembering the stories from the past four years; not rush-ing straight to gradu-ation. Yes, there may be seventeen days until graduation. But quite frankly, I am not gushing with the same excitement to see ev-eryone go. I want to enjoy what I have left

with those seniors in Sheffield, Student Ac-tivities, and classes without a constant reminder of their im-

pending absence.So seniors: yes, we

are all aware that your graduation is right around the corner. If I can speak for the rest of the underclassmen: we wish you the best in all you do. We all hope that you have the best of luck in the fu-ture outside of UNH. But remember as you are counting down the days until the school year ends: some of us would like to enjoy those days with you. Make them count as much as possible!

are. If they see that you were working, nonstop, from 6:00am Friday to 3:00am Sat-urday for the concert,

then about 7:00am to 2:00am for the Spring Carnival, they would see how important each of you are. If they see that you are in the office for hours each day, planning events every day, working with agents, perform-

ers, and companies ev-ery week, and dealing with last-minute prob-lems that may arise, people would see how

important each of you are.

SCOPE is one of those reasons you choose to stay at the University of New Haven. Personally, they’re more than just a committee on programming events;

they’re my friends and family. For those in SCOPE who are graduating this year, I think it goes without

saying that you will be sorely missed.

If you see any of these people, please thank them for all of their hard work. They, along with advisors Greg Overend and Lisa Saverese, are the reason campus events

are so amazing each week. It’s a pleasure to not only know them, but to be friends with every one of them.

M a l l o r i e Frohlinger, Glenn Alt-shuler, Kelsey Shaw, Dave Mckinney, Ra-chel Nichols, Lindsay Lynch, Jackie Mc-Creedy, Kelsey Mor-rison, Tyler Salovin, Bryan Saliski, and B.C. Hollies.

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If you have any problems at UNH, the first suggestion given is to post a concern on Chargervoice.com. This is an outlet, but is it really a solution?

I had a concern when I was a fresh-man about the broken water fountains in the library and I posted my concern. I got an

USGA Inefficienciesemail the next day stating that the water fountains were being taken care of but a year later nothing has changed. I have had other concerns and posted but every time I get the same email. These concerns are supposed to be sent to committee heads; I have been a part of

many committees on campus and I think that all they do is sit and talk. I think talk-ing is in vain if it does not translate into ac-tion.

I do not speak about all commit-tees, but the ones I was a part of seemed to focus elsewhere. Friendships and so-

cialization seemed to take a higher priority than the problems of students. This is why I am no longer a part of these committees.

I think Charger-voice.com is a great website but its pur-pose is lost after initial contact. I do not know what the solution is but all I see are ignored

problems and false hopes. I think if the E-board of USGA are busy with other prob-lems and cannot find effective solutions to problems, new man-agement is needed. They should be able to follow through with student concerns.

I think UNH is striving to get better

things but the bro-ken water fountains and other miscella-neous problems keep the general popula-tion from seeing these strides. Chargervoice.com is a solution but its efficiency is still debatable.

-- Ankit Sharma

What is it about Great Horned Owls that make them look wise and at the same time dangerous? Well, to give you an idea, it is those massive gold-en eyes and devilish horns formed by the feathers that sit on top of their ears. But what is it about those mas-

Animal Awareness: The Great Horned OwlBy MAIDELINE SANCHEZSTAFF WRITER

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sive eyes that keep our curious minds won-dering what makes them so massive? Let us take a look at a part of their lifestyle before we make any conclusions.

Being nocturnal, the Great Horned Owl must contain a large surface area for their eyes to capture light as much as they can to allow them to see at night. They are also

farsighted, meaning they cannot see any-thing that is within a few inches in front of them. This adaptation allows them to catch sight of prey that is distant. So once that poor little someone, soon to become the owl’s dinner, scurries along its line of vi-sion, there is no turn-ing back.

What makes the Great Horned Owl so

distinct from the oth-ers is the horn-like tufts that form just above their ears. Also, the coloration of their feathers makes them unique in that they are mostly individually striped with darker and lighter shades of brown. They are re-ferred to as “Tigers of the Night” for this reason. Great Horned Owls are mostly pre-dominant in the west-

ern hemisphere where they range from the Arctic all the way through South Ameri-ca. So if you are walk-ing through the woods and you come across a Great Horned Owl, do not be surprised.

Did You Know? Great Horned Owls, as well as other owls, are equipped with three eyelids. The up-per eyelid is normally used for when the owl

blinks while the lower lid is used mainly for when the owl is asleep. The third lid (nictating membrane) is located just beneath the other two upper and lower lids and closes diago-nally to clean the sur-face of the eye inside and out.

There was a huge parking lot behind Botwinik?

There were multi-ple classrooms where the Samuel S. Berga-mi Center for Finance and Technology room is now?

There was no patio behind Bartels?

Bartels didn’t have a fireplace?

The campus only had 2100 students?

Not every fresh-men room was tri-pled?

There was a tiny gym in Botwinik?

Sandellas was not an option?

New Hall was an upperclassmen resi-dence hall?

The Chariot Year-book and the Charger Bulletin had windows

in their office?DSA put on V.I.P.

Bingo not “Naughty” Bingo?

The grassy knoll was still around?

Our entire class could fit into one class photo instead of two?

The e-mail used to work?

You were able to drive around the en-tire campus from any starting point?

We were able to have meetings in the Dodds auditorium?

Library computers were always avail-able?

The club rocks were in front of Bar-tels and the Book-store?

Spring Carnival was held in the Bixler

parking lot?Computers and

Their Applications was an hour and a half of Facebooking known as Intro to Data Processing?

The Maxcy Stair-case was a really ugly blue color?

Facebook was for college students only?

The UNH website was one picture and an ugly blue back-ground?

The Price Is Right was held annually in the auditorium?

The computer lab was just a bunch of trailers in the Botwin-ik parking lot?

The turf field was a giant dead patch of grass and mud that made the trip from Winchester to New

Cafe way shorter?Your eyes didn’t

hurt when looking at the football field?

The Vlock Center was two large class-rooms instead of one smaller one?

WNHU was part of USGA?

Quick Zone was called the C-Store (and always will be for the older stu-dents)?

The freshmen class didn’t outnumber the other three classes combined?

There was a giant black sculpture in front of the library?

The computer stations in the library were actually stacks?

The meal plans cost half of what they do now?

UNH IDs had our birthdays on them?

The “new con-struction” on campus was the Bartels patio?

UNH Cribs used to be on channel 14?

Midnight Break-fast was actually at midnight?

Take Three used to be the faculty dining room?

There was a Quiz-nos in New Hall?

You used to be able to send campus-wide e-mails without Student Activities doing it for you?

The New Hall parking lot was a field?

It was common knowledge that Maxcy was haunted?

The only Jazzman’s on campus

was in the student center?

The Dean of Stu-dents Office was in Bixler Hall?

Registration was done on paper and done first come, first serve leading to some hardcore slumber par-ties the night before?

Room selection was done in huge groups in the Alumni Lounge or German Club?

Bethel Hall held freshmen AND trans-fer students?

There was no DPhiE, Sigma Chi or Phi Sig Sig but there was a DSA and an APhiA?

The school tried to fix the quad by roping it off for a month?

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artist sang hits from his first two albums as well as the first one released from his upcoming album. He had everyone in the gym doing the “two step” and of course had most of the ladies

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swooning. His website is www.treysongz.com if you want more information.

Trapt was up next. The group from Los Ga-tos, California is best known for its hit “Head-strong”. They performed this hit for the UNH crowd as well as other songs from their three stu-dio albums. This p e r f o r m a n c e got the crowd extremely worked up and ready for the headliner. If you love Trapt and want more, join their social net-work at www.onlyth-roughthepain.com.

Lastly was Third Eye Blind, who per-formed old hits and new things off of their upcoming album Ursa Major due out later this

year. They performed fan favorites includ-ing “Semi-Charmed Life,” “How’s It Gonna Be,” and “Mo-torcycle Drive By.” Some members of the audience felt com-pelled to crowd surf and start mosh pits,

but the security pro-vided by SCOPE, campus police and West Haven police quickly diffused all of the situations. These groups did a great job maintaining the safety of the UNH students/guests as well as the bands. After the show was over some stu-dents stuck around to

help break down and load out the equip-ment. Kudos to those students who did tough it out and get everything clean for the next day. It was an extremely long night, but worth it to be a part of the weekend.

The weather cleared on Saturday in time for the carnival. Between the rides, food, free stuff and Bula the 41 year old marshmallow-loving elephant there was no end to the fun.

SCOPE went out of its way to make sure there was some-thing for everyone at this carnival. There was the typical car-nival food (popcorn, cotton candy and fried dough) as well as en-chiladas and Dippin’ Dots ice cream. So-dexo also provided dinner in the form of a BBQ with chicken, burgers, hotdogs, wa-termelon and cookies.

For rides there was the tilt-o-rama, super trooper, berry-go-round, dragon coaster, fun house and huge slide. There was also adult-sized tricycles, bathtub races, a me-

chanical bull, and a bunch of the “usual” carnival games.

S t u -d e n t s could get just about whatever they want-ed made out of bal loons, wax molds of their h a n d s , c a r i c a -tures, pho-to strips, photo cell p h o n e tags, mani-cures and m a s s a g -es. Many s t u d e n t s left North C a m p u s with their arms full of me-mentoes to help them remember the week-end.

Photos by staff photographer Kimberly Harman

Then of course there was the much anticipated elephant ride. This aspect of the carnival received

mixed reviews from the students. While most couldn’t wait for

their chance to ride an elephant, others found keeping the elephant walking in small cir-cles not at all appeal-

ing.Personally,

I thoroughly enjoyed the chance to ride an elephant as I honestly can’t think of any other time in the future I will have that chance with two of my best friends beside me.

E v e n though I did not win any of the prizes at the end of the day, there was a great selection that offered some-thing for ev-eryone. The

evening closed with comedian, and winner of Last Comic Stand-

ing, John Heffron, who attracting rough-ly 500 students.

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Find where the Word of the Week is used in this issue and e-mail the sen-

tence it is used in and the page it appears on to chargerbulletin@ne-

whaven.edu

You can win a gift card to Target if you’re the first!

Advice CornerQ: I have an embarrassing flatulence problem, and I dread going to class and quiet meetings. How can I better control this issue without embarrassing myself each time?

A: Maybe you should talk to your doctor and see if maybe there is a medication you should take to help with your problem.

A: HAHAHA. There isn't any advice for this.

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was led by four goals from senior Brady. Kenworthy also fin-ished with three goals. Ashley Ferrandiz fin-ished with two goals, while Magnone, Mal-lory Ferrandiz and Alexis Gabbe each finished with one score.

The Chargers, ranked No. 8 in the latest Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association/Under Armour poll, will find out later to-night if they made the 2009 NCAA Cham-pionship field. The Chargers were ranked third in the north re-

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WEST HAVEN — University of New Haven women’s la-crosse student-athlete Mallory Ferrandiz and baseball student-athlete Tom Rombilus have been named the Charger Bulletin Ath-letes of the Week for the week ending Sun-day, May 3, 2009.

Ferrandiz helped lead the Chargers women’s lacrosse team to the program’s first-ever Northeast-10

Conference Cham-pionship and NCAA appearance. She was named to the All-Northeast-10 Confer-ence First Team, the Northeast-10 Confer-ence All-Champion-ship Team and was named the North-east-10 Conference Championship Most Outstanding Player. She tallied eight goals and four assists in four games the past two weeks. She also

grabbed 12 draw con-trols, including eight in the Chargers NE-10 Championship semifi-nal matchup.

Ferrandiz leads the Chargers into the NCAA Division II tournament on Satur-day, May 9 at C.W.

Post. Game time is still to be determined.

Rombilus helped led the Chargers base-ball team into their first-ever Northeast-10 Conference Champi-onship. New Haven clinched the fifth seed in the tournament and take on fourth seed Bentley University today for a spot in the semifinal round.

Rombilus led the Chargers with a .439 batting average in four

wins. He tallied 18 hits in 41 at-bats. He drove in six runs and scored eight over the past two weeks. He tal-lied a two-week high four hits on Thursday, April 30 against Mer-rimack.

The Charger Bul-letin Athletes of the Week are announced every other week in the Charger Bulletin and on the Chargers website at www.ne-whaven.edu/athletics.

I N D I A N A P O L I S , Ind. - The NCAA Division II Softball Championship com-mittee announced the 2009 championship field early Monday morning. The Char-gers earned the sev-enth seed in the East Region and will travel

Softball Heads to Second Con-secutive NCAA Tournament

gion poll last week. Three at-large bids from the north region

are selected to the

Championship.NCAA Division

I, II and III Women's

Lacrosse and Divi-

sion II and III Men's Lacrosse Champion-ships brackets will

be announced exclu-

sively on CBS Col-lege Sports Network during the NCAA

Lacrosse Selection

Special. The brackets were revealed Sunday night around 10:30pm (Eastern Time).

CBS College Sports Network is avail-able on local cable systems around the country and also via satellite on Dish Net-work (channel 152) and DirecTV (chan-nel 613). On Comcast in New Haven and the surrounding area, CBS College Sports Network is channel 274. Immediately fol-lowing the announce-ment on CBS College Sports Network, www.NCAA.com will have the complete bracket.

to Brookville, N.Y. for the opening round of the tournament which starts on Fri., May 8.

New Haven will take on the ECC Champions, C.W. Post in their open-ing round matchup. The opening round, or regional round, is double-elimination format. The other two teams at the C.W. Post regional are Georgian

Court of the CACC and NE-10 runners-up Southern Connecticut. The tournament will take place over three days and conclude on Sun., May 10 with the regional champion-ship.

The regional win-ner will advance to the super regional and take on the other regional winner in a best-of-three series.

The other east region-al, played at top seed Le Moyne College, will feature the Dol-phins, Caldwell Col-lege, Dowling Col-lege and Dominican College. Those dates would be Fri., May 15 and Sat., May 16.

Game time, ticket information, and more can be found online at www.NewHaven.edu/athletics.

A CHARGER ATHLETICS PHOTOJunior third baseman Nicole Downs.

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Wolverine: Clawing Onto the Big ScreenBy STEPHEN ACEVEDOSTAFF WRITER

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The much antici-pated X-Men Origins: Wolverine finally clawed its way into theaters on Friday, May 1. I, like many other fans of the X-Men and of Wolver-ine, came into the the-ater with jittery feet. I found myself wait-ing for each trailer to hurry up and finish, just to get the movie started. So there I am sitting and tapping my toes, with my girl-friend by my side just as anxious as me, un-til finally the lights dim down causing my eyes to focus on the film ready to begin.

Now before I be-gin my criticism, I al-ready expect the film to be shunned upon due to its accuracy of Wolverine’s origins in the comics. But what audiences need to know is that little is actually known about Wolverine’s origins, which leaves a lot of

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room for plausible backgrounds. And the aspects of his past that were changed in the film were not as major as people may believe. Therefore, if you approach the film without any prior bias, you will discover that it is actually a descent flick.

I also have to give a huge kudos to Hugh Jackman (Jimmy / Lo-gan / Wolverine) and Liev Schreiber (Victor Creed/ Sabretooth) for their great portrayal of their characters. I could not have even dreamed of a better pair to play both Wol-verine and Sabretooth for a movie. Their chemistry is without a doubt one of the stronger points in the film. Other great per-formances by Taylor Kitsch (Remy Le-Beau/ Gambit) and Ryan Reynolds (Wade Wilson/ Deadpool) deserve applause.

Another surprising strength in the film is its storyline. I looked at the trailer, like many

others, and raised an eyebrow when watch-ing characters like the Blob, Gambit, and

Cyclops show up on the television. But believe it or not, they did a great job mak-ing these characters fit smoothly into the movie. It really is not as bad as many peo-ple may think when watching the trailer

on television. Even Will.I.Am’s perfor-mance was pretty descent. Actually, in

my opinion, the cre-ative and intriguing storyline is probably the main strength of the film and is what causes the film to be just barely successful.

The main problem with X-Men Origins: Wolverine however,

is not the storyline or changes that veer from comic origin, but rather from the factor you would least expect in a superhero action movie, and that is the special effects. The biggest down-fall of the movie, and what causes it to lose higher praise, comes from the over abun-dance of CGI. Quite frankly, I am a little disappointed in the effects put in for the film. I mean come on, this is a Wolver-ine movie, and again I emphasize, a Wolver-ine movie; and with a Wolverine movie, the special effects need to be on point. To tell you the truth, the Wol-verine claws looked more realistic in the regular X-Men films. So beware, and I warn you ahead of time, you might find your-self fighting to hold in a chuckle or two during a couple of the scenes.

But besides the CGI effects, the film is pretty good over-

all. I encourage all superhero fans to buy a ticket and watch it, along with any gen-eral action flick fans, because if you are a fan, it really is worth the couple of dollars. But remember, if you relate the movie to the comics you might find yourself disappointed, so try to see the movie in a new state of mind. And like many other hero films, there is a clip after the cred-its. Actually there are multiple post-credit endings, and the one you see depends on the theater you watch it in; therefore, you will ei-ther have to watch the film multiple times in multiple different the-aters, or wait until the DVD release to watch all the alternate end-ings. I personally rec-ommend waiting for the DVD. And with that, X-Men Origins: Wolverine gets a “B” in my book.

A Flea In Her Ear Wows Audienceget crazy! There seems to be a bellboy/servant named Goshe (Jeremy Tortora) working at the hotel who looks strikingly like De-boshe. It turns into a game of hide and seek as more friends show up diving in and out of rooms trying to avoid husbands, and figure things out especially when monsieur De-boshe arrives. Now ev-eryone is screwed up thinking that Deboshe is Goshe and Goshe is Deboshe with no one able to tell the differ-ence. Then of course you always have the good ol’ doc’ running around with the maid of the hotel Babette

(Lauren Ac-eto) .

We then return to the D e b o s h e ’s living room. E v e r y o n e is in sheer c o n f u s i o n because of the whole Goshe-De-boshe look a-like situ-ation. Then Goshe shows up looking for his hotel uniform because he is wear-ing Deboshe’s jacket, while Deboshe is wearing his uniform. This throws every-one from madam De-boshe through all of her friends and even

the doctor through a loop. They all believe that it is Deboshe and try to cure him of some kind of drug and alcohol amnesia. Everyone is running around trying to figure things out even as the

real Deboshe comes in. It isn’t until the colonel shows up and they spot Goshe in the garden below and De-boshe in the room that they realize what had happened. Madam De-boshe finds out about

the whole movie inci-dent that had freaked out Monsieur and set this whole mess into action.

This show was amazing. Anyone who missed it is gonna be kicking themselves in

the butt for a while. The cast and crew have done an amazing job this show.The past two months for these folks have really paid off with such amaz-ing performances. If you missed it you probably missed one of the funniest shows that UNH has done. Congratulations to the cast and crew for that excellent show. Now I can’t wait to see what they do next.

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April Movieson Channel 14

April is Earth Day (April 22nd) and Holocaust Remembrance Month

The 11th Hour (Earth Day Selection)Sunday 8pm, Saturday 1pm & Mon-

day 2am

An Inconvenient Truth (Earth Day Selection)

Friday 11pm, Saturday 4pm, & Wednesday 11pm

March of the Penguins (Earth Day Selection)

Sunday 11pm & Wednesday 8pm

Paperclips (Holocaust Remembrance Month Selection)

Sunday 1am and Tuesday 8pm

Schindler’s List (Holocaust Remem-brance Month Selection)

Thursday 1am, Friday 8pm & Satur-day 1am

I Am LegendSaturday 8pm, Sunday 1pm & Mon-

day 11pm

Arctic Tale (Earth Day Selection)Saturday 11pm and Sunday 4pm

Go Green Video—Recycle (Earth Day Selection)

Tuesday 1am

Go Green Video—Reduce Waste (Earth Day Selection)

Tuesday 11pm & Monday 8pm

Go Green Video—Shop Green (Earth Day Selection)Thursday 8pm

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